Apply rigid leg cast 29445 at St. Joseph Medical Center
1717 South J Street, Tacoma, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1952309098
$294.30
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$888.57
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$300.68 with Seattle Medical Group vs $1,324.49 with Aetna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $300.68 | ↑ +2% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $301.02 | ↑ +2% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $301.02 | ↑ +2% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $304.03 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $310.05 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $310.05 | ↑ +5% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $310.05 | ↑ +5% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $322.09 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $325.10 | ↑ +10% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $325.10 | ↑ +10% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $328.11 | ↑ +11% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $346.17 | ↑ +18% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $577.96 | ↑ +96% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $596.02 | ↑ +103% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $602.04 | ↑ +105% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $613.12 | ↑ +108% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $621.68 | ↑ +111% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $639.78 | ↑ +117% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $652.77 | ↑ +122% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $663.73 | ↑ +126% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $666.43 | ↑ +126% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $718.10 | ↑ +144% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $761.06 | ↑ +159% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $898.70 | ↑ +205% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $930.07 | ↑ +216% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $949.87 | ↑ +223% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $999.88 | ↑ +240% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $999.88 | ↑ +240% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,125.81 | ↑ +283% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,324.49 | ↑ +350% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $462.00 | $133.07 – $1,886.89 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $462.00 | $133.74 – $1,342.61 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $796.80 | $323.88 – $1,080.15 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $796.80 | $323.88 – $1,045.68 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $796.80 | $324.79 – $1,080.15 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $707.20 | $323.88 – $1,344.45 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $698.36 | $318.51 – $896.30 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $334.80 | $127.74 – $1,067.60 |